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Core Committee for the Support of Underrepresented
Ethnic Groups
Meeting Highlights
May 10, 2006
Present: Jose Gonzalez, Freddy Paniagua, Suzanne Peloquin, Jennifer
Raeke, Cecilia Romero, Rebecca Saavedra, Kathy Shingleton, Cindy
Stanton, Melvin Williams, and Miguel Ybarra.
1. Approval of the Minutes: The April 12 minutes were approved.
2. Announcements: o Dr. Gonzalez announced that he would take the
Multicultural Teaching Scholars Program to Dr. Lieberman to see how it
might align with the Academy of Master Teachers. o Melvin Williams
announced that he will propose names at the next meeting for the 2006
Diversity Award for Diversity Week 2006.
3. Subcommittee to Review AP&T Process: The Associate Deans have been
charged by the Deans to head the Faculty A&P Caucus, which includes Dave
Niesel, Henry Cavazos, Kathy Lucke, and Brent Masel. Patrick Adegboyega
who served on the AP&T Committee has left UTMB and was also a Core
Committee member. Martha Trevino from the School of Nursing is willing
to serve for Tina Cuellar, who has been deployed to Iraq.
4. Faculty Compensation Plans: The committee reviewed the Faculty
Compensation Plans in the School of Medicine (as well as similar plans
in the SAHS and Nursing) and found it to be an excellent initiative in
terms of defining a process "to reward optimal faculty performance and
maintain and enhance faculty excellence toward UTMB's missions of
patient care, education, and research." The Core Committee is concerned
regarding the phrasing of B.1 dealing with the Core Salary Component.
The committee wants clarification on B.1, and Mr. Melvin Williams
suggested that two ways to clarify this issue is either for the chair of
the committee to speak to Harold McDermott or invite him to explain the
compensation plan to the committee. In addition, the group recommended
that the chair send a letter to Dr. Parisi asking for a similar
clarification. Dr. Paniagua will prepare a draft of this letter and then
discuss it in a subsequent Core Committee meeting before it is sent to
Dr. Parisi.
5. Other Business: Suzanne Peloquin reminded the committee that no
action had been taken on the statement she prepared in 2005 on the
concept of gap funding. The statement will be emailed to members of the
committee and will be an agenda item at the June meeting.
It was also agreed that Melvin and Freddy would work together on a
compensation statement to take to Dr. Parisi.
Meeting adjourned at 12:50 p.m.
Our next meeting is scheduled on Wednesday, June 14, 2006, from
12:00-1:00 p.m. in the Ballinger Mills Room.
Recorder: Sheryl Lashway, Office of the President
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